Catharina Knibbergen was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
editAccording to the RKD she was influenced by Bartholomeus Breenbergh and was perhaps the daughter of the painter François van Knibbergen (born 1596/97).[1] However, in a 1634 poem Pieter Nootmans already called her the vermaarde kunstrijke schilderes ("famous artful painter") Juffrouw Catharina van Knibbergen, suggesting a birth in the 1610s at the latest.[2] The painter who married the wine merchant Lucas de Hen in 1643 in The Hague was not Catharina Knibbergen, as the RKD suggests, but Catharina van der Snap.[2][3]
In 1660 she was a member of Confrerie Pictura and various landscapes signed by her have turned up in period inventories in The Hague.[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b Catharina Knibbergen in the RKD
- ^ a b Marloes Huiskamp, Knibbergen, Catharina in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, 31 January 2014
- ^ Marloes Huiskamp, Snap, Catharina van der, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, 31 January 2014.